dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/way_MWT.json
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{
"waylay":{
"to lie in wait for and attack by surprise":{
"examples":[
"a lonely stretch of highway along which unsuspecting tourists are often waylaid by gangs"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"storm",
"strike",
"jump",
"mug",
"pounce (on)",
"tackle",
"charge",
"sally",
"capture",
"ensnare",
"entrap",
"mousetrap",
"net",
"snare",
"trap",
"hunt",
"prey (on or upon)",
"stalk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"waywardness":{
"refusal to obey":{
"examples":[
"the unremitting waywardness of the child frustrated her parents at times"
],
"synonyms":[
"balkiness",
"contrariness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebellion",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness",
"willfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"civil disobedience",
"noncooperation",
"discourteousness",
"disrespect",
"impertinence",
"impoliteness",
"impudence",
"inconsiderateness",
"inconsideration",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"ungraciousness",
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"peevishness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pertinacity",
"perversity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"knavery",
"mischievousness",
"naughtiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeability",
"amenability",
"amiability",
"slavishness",
"submissiveness",
"subservience",
"subserviency",
"trainability",
"deference",
"docility",
"dutifulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"compliance",
"obedience",
"submission",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"tractability",
"tractableness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"way":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"the town honored the local sports hero by naming after him a short way connecting two shopping centers"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a usual manner of behaving or doing":{
"examples":[
"she's set in her ways and is not about to change"
],
"synonyms":[
"custom",
"fashion",
"habit",
"habitude",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"ritual",
"second nature",
"trick",
"wont"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addiction",
"disposition",
"bent",
"inclination",
"proclivity",
"set",
"tendency",
"tenor",
"turn",
"bag",
"convention",
"form",
"mode",
"style",
"usage",
"use",
"deportment",
"manners",
"mores",
"drill",
"groove",
"jog trot",
"regime",
"r\u00e9gime",
"regimen",
"rote",
"routine",
"rut",
"affectation",
"airs",
"pose",
"attribute",
"characteristic",
"mark",
"trait",
"eccentricity",
"kink",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity",
"tic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an established course for traveling from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"took the regular way to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"avenue",
"passage",
"path",
"route"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bypath",
"byway",
"lane",
"laneway",
"artery",
"boulevard",
"bypass",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"passageway",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"routeway",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"turnpike",
"walk",
"walkway",
"trace",
"track",
"trail",
"airway",
"bikeway",
"cycleway",
"channel",
"gat",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"door",
"doorway",
"gate",
"gateway",
"hatch",
"portal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an established pattern of behavior":{
"examples":[
"that's just his way , so pay him no mind"
],
"synonyms":[
"aptness",
"proneness",
"propensity",
"tendency"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bent",
"disposition",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"mind-set",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"turn",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"routine",
"wont",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity",
"trick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averseness",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"indisposition"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing":{
"examples":[
"made way for them to pass"
],
"synonyms":[
"elbow room",
"place",
"room",
"space"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capacity",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"berth",
"clearance",
"freedom",
"latitude",
"leeway",
"play"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the direction along which something or someone moves":{
"examples":[
"go the same way that the school bus does"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"line",
"path",
"pathway",
"route",
"routeway",
"steps",
"track"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"circuit",
"loop",
"orbit",
"arc",
"flight path",
"trajectory",
"ascent",
"descent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the means or procedure for doing something":{
"examples":[
"figured out the best way to accomplish the task"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"fashion",
"form",
"how",
"manner",
"method",
"methodology",
"recipe",
"strategy",
"style",
"system",
"tack",
"tactics",
"technique"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mode",
"modus operandi",
"blueprint",
"design",
"game",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"intrigue",
"layout",
"line",
"model",
"plan",
"plot",
"program",
"route",
"scheme",
"expedient",
"move",
"shift",
"step",
"practice",
"practise",
"process",
"routine",
"policy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure":{
"examples":[
"we came in the back way"
],
"synonyms":[
"door",
"doorway",
"entrance",
"gate",
"gateway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hatch",
"hatchway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the power, right, or opportunity to choose":{
"examples":[
"have it your way"
],
"synonyms":[
"alternative",
"choice",
"discretion",
"druthers",
"election",
"liberty",
"option",
"pick",
"preference",
"selection",
"volition"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determination",
"free will",
"will",
"say",
"voice",
"vote",
"inclination",
"liking",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"perspicacity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coercion",
"duress",
"force",
"duty",
"obligation",
"Hobson's choice"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"examples":[
"it's just a little way down the road"
],
"synonyms":[
"distance",
"lead",
"length",
"remove",
"spacing",
"spread",
"stretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altitude",
"area",
"breadth",
"depth",
"height",
"rise",
"space",
"volume",
"width",
"extension",
"extent",
"cast",
"range",
"reach",
"scope",
"shot",
"sweep",
"throw",
"drop",
"fall",
"flight",
"haul",
"berth",
"clearance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to a great degree":{
"examples":[
"\"Oh, I'm just way thrilled to be here!\" the pageant contestant gushed"
],
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"wayfarers":{
"a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination":{
"examples":[
"one of the great wayfarers of American folklore, Johnny Appleseed wandered across the country, always planting apple seeds"
],
"synonyms":[
"drifters",
"gadabouts",
"gypsies",
"knockabouts",
"maunderers",
"nomads",
"ramblers",
"roamers",
"rovers",
"strollers",
"vagabonds",
"wanderers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laggards",
"stragglers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"sojourners",
"bums",
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"tramps",
"passengers",
"sightseers",
"travelers",
"travellers",
"migrants",
"transients",
"vagrants",
"amblers",
"saunterers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homebodies",
"denizens",
"dwellers",
"habitants",
"inhabitants",
"residents",
"settlers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ways":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"the town honored the local sports hero by naming after him a short way connecting two shopping centers"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a usual manner of behaving or doing":{
"examples":[
"she's set in her ways and is not about to change"
],
"synonyms":[
"customs",
"fashions",
"habits",
"habitudes",
"patterns",
"practices",
"practises",
"rituals",
"tricks",
"wonts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addictions",
"dispositions",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"proclivities",
"sets",
"tendencies",
"tenors",
"turns",
"bags",
"conventions",
"forms",
"modes",
"styles",
"usages",
"uses",
"deportments",
"manners",
"mores",
"drills",
"grooves",
"jog trots",
"regimens",
"regimes",
"r\u00e9gimes",
"rotes",
"routines",
"ruts",
"affectations",
"airs",
"poses",
"attributes",
"characteristics",
"marks",
"traits",
"eccentricities",
"kinks",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quirks",
"singularities",
"tics"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an established course for traveling from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"took the regular way to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"approaches",
"avenues",
"passages",
"paths",
"routes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bypaths",
"byways",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"arteries",
"boulevards",
"bypasses",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passageways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routeways",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"turnpikes",
"walks",
"walkways",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails",
"airways",
"bikeways",
"cycleways",
"channels",
"gats",
"watercourses",
"waterways",
"doors",
"doorways",
"gates",
"gateways",
"hatches",
"portals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an established pattern of behavior":{
"examples":[
"that's just his way , so pay him no mind"
],
"synonyms":[
"propensities",
"tendencies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affinities",
"aptitudes",
"bents",
"dispositions",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"mind-sets",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"turns",
"customs",
"habits",
"patterns",
"practices",
"practises",
"routines",
"wonts",
"eccentricities",
"idiosyncrasies",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quirks",
"singularities",
"tricks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disinclinations",
"dislikes",
"indispositions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the direction along which something or someone moves":{
"examples":[
"go the same way that the school bus does"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"lines",
"paths",
"pathways",
"routes",
"routeways",
"steps",
"tracks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circles",
"circuits",
"loops",
"orbits",
"arcs",
"flight paths",
"trajectories",
"ascents",
"descents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the means or procedure for doing something":{
"examples":[
"figured out the best way to accomplish the task"
],
"synonyms":[
"approaches",
"fashions",
"forms",
"hows",
"manners",
"methodologies",
"methods",
"recipes",
"strategies",
"styles",
"systems",
"tacks",
"tactics",
"techniques"
],
"near synonyms":[
"modes",
"modi operandi",
"blueprints",
"designs",
"game plans",
"games",
"ground plans",
"intrigues",
"layouts",
"lines",
"models",
"plans",
"plots",
"programs",
"routes",
"schemes",
"expedients",
"moves",
"shifts",
"steps",
"practices",
"practises",
"processes",
"routines",
"policies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure":{
"examples":[
"we came in the back way"
],
"synonyms":[
"doors",
"doorways",
"entrances",
"gates",
"gateways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hatches",
"hatchways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the power, right, or opportunity to choose":{
"examples":[
"have it your way"
],
"synonyms":[
"alternatives",
"choices",
"discretions",
"druthers",
"elections",
"liberties",
"options",
"picks",
"preferences",
"selections",
"volitions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determinations",
"free wills",
"wills",
"says",
"voices",
"votes",
"inclinations",
"likings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"discernments",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"perspicacities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coercions",
"duresses",
"forces",
"duties",
"obligations",
"Hobson's choices"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"examples":[
"it's just a little way down the road"
],
"synonyms":[
"distances",
"leads",
"lengths",
"removes",
"spacings",
"spreads",
"stretches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altitudes",
"areas",
"breadths",
"depths",
"heights",
"rises",
"spaces",
"volumes",
"widths",
"extensions",
"extents",
"casts",
"ranges",
"reaches",
"scopes",
"shots",
"sweeps",
"throws",
"drops",
"falls",
"flights",
"hauls",
"berths",
"clearances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"way stations":{
"a regular stopping place":{
"examples":[
"a way station for truck drivers"
],
"synonyms":[
"stations",
"stops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depots",
"terminals",
"layovers",
"stopovers",
"outstations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"waylaid":{
"to lie in wait for and attack by surprise":{
"examples":[
"a lonely stretch of highway along which unsuspecting tourists are often waylaid by gangs"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"jumped",
"mugged",
"pounced (on)",
"tackled",
"charged",
"sallied",
"captured",
"ensnared",
"entrapped",
"mousetrapped",
"netted",
"snared",
"trapped",
"hunted",
"preyed (on or upon)",
"stalked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"way-out":{
"different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion":{
"examples":[
"some new and way-out suggestions for naming the baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weird",
"weirdo",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"addlepated",
"flaky",
"extraordinary",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"freak",
"freakish",
"freaky",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"phenomenal",
"atypical",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"striking",
"atrocious",
"outrageous",
"shocking",
"crotchety",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"nonmainstream",
"out-there",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"garden",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday",
"conformist",
"conservative",
"conventional",
"expected",
"familiar",
"knee-jerk",
"predictable",
"common",
"customary",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"wonted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"way station":{
"a regular stopping place":{
"examples":[
"a way station for truck drivers"
],
"synonyms":[
"station",
"stop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depot",
"terminal",
"layover",
"stopover",
"outstation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"waylaying":{
"to lie in wait for and attack by surprise":{
"examples":[
"a lonely stretch of highway along which unsuspecting tourists are often waylaid by gangs"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"storming",
"striking",
"jumping",
"mugging",
"pouncing (on)",
"tackling",
"charging",
"sallying",
"capturing",
"ensnaring",
"entrapping",
"mousetrapping",
"netting",
"snaring",
"trapping",
"hunting",
"preying (on or upon)",
"stalking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}